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. 2025 Oct 23;15(11):1658. doi: 10.3390/life15111658
BMI Body Mass Index
GWAS Genome-Wide Association Study
SNP Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism
NGS Next-Generation Sequencing
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
mRNA Messenger RNA
miRNA MicroRNA
lncRNA Long Non-Coding RNA
CpG Cytosine–Phosphate–Guanine (dinucleotide site)
ChIP-seq Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing
ATAC-seq Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin Sequencing
eQTL Expression Quantitative Trait Locus
CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
FTO Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Gene
MC4R Melanocortin 4 Receptor
PCOS Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
NASH Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
T2D Type 2 Diabetes
HDL High-Density Lipoprotein
LDL Low-Density Lipoprotein
GWAS-CNV Genome-Wide Association Study–Copy Number Variant
MR Mendelian Randomization
ACC Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase
FAS Fatty Acid Synthase
SCD-1 Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1
CPT Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase
CoA Coenzyme A